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Three modal decompositions of Gaussian Schell-model sources: comparative analysis.

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Representation of the cross-spectral density (CSD) function of an optical source or beam as the incoherent superposition of mutually uncorrelated modes are widely used in imaging systems and in free… Click to show full abstract

Representation of the cross-spectral density (CSD) function of an optical source or beam as the incoherent superposition of mutually uncorrelated modes are widely used in imaging systems and in free space optical communication systems for simplification of the analysis and reduction of the time-consuming integral calculations. In this paper, we examine the equivalence and the differences among three modal representation methods: coherent-mode representation (CMR), pseudo-mode representation (PMR) and random mode representation (RMR) for the Gaussian Schell-model (GSM) source class. Our results reveal that for the accurate reconstruction of the CSD of a generic GSM source, the CMR method requires superposition of the least number of optical modes, followed by PMR and then by RMR. The three methods become equivalent if a sufficiently large number of optical modes are involved. However, such an equivalence is limited to the second-order statistics of the source, e.g., the spectral density (average intensity) and the degree of coherence, while the fourth-order statistics, e.g., intensity-intensity correlations, obtained by the three methods are quite different. Furthermore, the second- and the fourth- order statistics of the GSM beam propagating through a deterministic screen and dynamic random screens with fast and slow time cycling are investigated through numerical examples. It is found that the properties of the second-order statistics of the beams obtained by the three methods are the same, irrespectively of the characteristics of the screens, whereas those of the fourth-order statistics remain different.

Keywords: three modal; order statistics; gaussian schell; schell model; representation

Journal Title: Optics express
Year Published: 2021

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